Digital Project Manager

Manchester Digital; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital solutions provider seeks experienced Digital Project Managers to lead the delivery of complex projects. Successful candidates will manage multi-functional teams, track progress, and maintain stakeholder relationships. The role supports a hybrid working model and offers a salary of £44,447, pension contributions, and a generous holiday package.

Benefits

Civil service pension with employer contributions

Generous leave package starting at 26 days

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Demonstrate effective project controls for project health.
• Build and manage effective stakeholder relationships.
• Create strong team dynamics.
• Communicate engagingly to maximize understanding.
• Take full ownership of digital projects with business impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of digital projects.
• Manage multi-functional delivery teams.
• Ensure delivery meets quality, time, and cost standards.
• Foster collaboration and build stakeholder relationships.
• Track progress and manage risks and issues.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Effective communication

Team building

Job description

We are seeking experienced Digital Project Managers to lead end-to-end delivery of complex digital projects in a fast-paced, transformative environment.

Our teams use fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives.

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, the problems we have to solve are rich and complex, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

Deliver. Work. Projects.

Our Digital Project Managers use a range of skills and methodologies, managing multi-functional delivery teams to deliver change, maintain our core applications and deliver new services that support the lives of millions of people.

You'll have the opportunity to take ownership of full projects or parts of more complex large-scale programmes, ensuring delivery meets agreed standards of quality, time, and cost, while managing governance, risks, issues, and dependencies through to resolution.

You'll track progress and budgets, report to senior stakeholders, manage change and cross-project impacts and maintain strong governance.

As a team leader, you'll also foster collaboration, resolve conflicts, and build a positive culture, while also developing the strong stakeholder relationships needed on a programme of work like this.

You'll be part of thriving Agile Project Delivery community. Your career development and learning will be fully supported with access to coach, mentoring and whatever suits your learning style best.

Assessments

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Can demonstrate effective project controls to demonstrate the health of the projects they are responsible for and react accordingly to the information gathered.
• Proven experience of building and managing effective stakeholder relationships to shape the outcomes of a project, considering different individual needs, views, and ideas.
• Demonstrable experience of building team dynamics and identifying ways to improve the way the team is working
• Communicate in a straightforward, honest, and engaging manner, choosing appropriate styles and tools to maximise and check understanding and impact.
• Proven ability to take full ownership of digital projects, including defining the strategy, setting the approach, leading facilitation, and ensuring successful delivery. Particularly where projects had direct business impact and were subject to strict deadlines.

Location

You’ll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Blackpool, Manchester or Newcastle, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working

We work a hybrid model – you’ll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay

We offer pay of £44,447.

Pension

You’ll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £12,876 per year.

Holidays

A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You’ll also get all the usual public holidays.

Benefits

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: